Flensed vs Flayed - What's the difference?
flensed | flayed |
(flense)
To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 198:
* 2001 , Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion , page 191 ISBN 0-380-97901-2:
* 2004 , , The Runes of the Earth , page 5 ISBN 0-399-15232-6:
* 2008 , Ian C. Esselemont, Return of the Crimson Guard , page 569 ISBN 978059305809:
* 2011 , Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores , page 106:
(flay)
To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
To frighten; scare; terrify.
To be fear-stricken.
A fright; a scare.
Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
to strip skin off
to lash
As verbs the difference between flensed and flayed
is that flensed is (flense) while flayed is (flay).flensed
English
Verb
(head)flense
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Alternative forms
* flenchVerb
- In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.
- His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed .
- For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her.
- It engulfed screaming soldiers who dissapeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them.
- The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.